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History

Truro Parish has served Prince William, Loudoun and Fairfax counties. Pohick Church fell within the bounds of Truro Parish.[1] The Falls Church fell within the bounds of Truro Parish for a time during the eighteenth century, before it became a part of Fairfax Parish.[2] Goose Creek Chapel (built 1736) served parishioners as a chapel of ease.[3]

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Cemetery

Surveys of the graves at Falls Church and Pohick Church were published in the late 1990s by the Fairfax Genealogical Society.[6]FHL Book 975.5291 V3f v. 3.

Earlier surveys of Falls Church Cemetery were conducted in 1923, c1939, 1989, and 1995.[6]

A survey of the graves at Goose Creek Burying Ground was published in 1996 by the Thomas Balch Library.[7] This book is available online at the Town of Leesburg website. (Is this the cemetery of Goose Creek Chapel??) FHL Book 975.528 V32L.

Remey, Charles Mason. A Series of Twelve of the Preliminary Architectural Studies for a Mausoleum Known Now as the Remeum: For the Family of Rear Admiral George Collier Remey, United States Navy, and His Wife, Mary Josephine Mason, Built at Pohick Church Glebe, Truro Parish, Fairfax County, Virginia. Washington, D.C.: C.M. Remey, 1954. FHL Film 1036144 Item 7.